The committee’s decision to tap McEnany, a polarizing avatar of the Trump phenomenon whose rise in national politics was as unlikely as her chosen candidate’s, reflects how fully the Republican Party apparatus has now accepted Trumpworld into its fold, and vice versa.
“Now,” said Tim Miller, a former deputy communications director for the RNC, McEnany “is, in a sense, the ‘establishment.’”…
Indeed, for an administration that has bucked countless precedents and upset the political order, the RNC’s wholesale integration with the Trump administration has been a remarkably normal feature.
“This is the natural order of things,” said Doug Heye, a former communications director for the RNC. “When there’s a Republican president, the committee works for the president.”
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